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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta

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CEO of Vendasta, the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses. We help grow local economies. #VendastaEveryWhere #ConquerLocal

Saskatoon, SK, CA, S7H3M6
Joined July 2008
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
14 days
You can replace "programmer" with any job function..... And that is how you feel.
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Andrej Karpathy
16 days
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
16 days
2026 is going to be a defining year at Vendasta. I have been involved in technology since I graduated with a physics/geophysics degree. After a brief stint in mining, I started a business assembling PCs from 1989 to 2000. I moved into SaaS in 2000, and Vendasta was born in 2008.
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
2 months
I am humbled, excited, and ready to learn. We had the opportunity to meet in person last week, and I walked away thinking one thing: Not only are Eric Johnson and Brent Remai incredibly successful and brilliant, but they are also genuinely some of the nicest people in the world.
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Vendasta
2 months
Big news: Eric Johnson (CEO, SurveyMonkey) and Brent Remai (CMO, Cloudflare) have joined Vendasta’s Board of Directors! Huge moment for our AI Workforce mission. 🥳
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
2 months
Dave McCaughan, Founder & Storyteller, BiblioSexual talks storytelling and AI at #SMBCON25 #Alsma
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
2 months
Dave McCaughan, Founder & Storyteller, BiblioSexual talks storytelling and AI at #SMBCON25 #Alsma
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
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Kimberli J. Lewis, General Manager & Board Member, Siinda, talks culture in the age of AI #SMBCON #ALSMA
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
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Greg Sterling, Co-founder, Dialog talking about trust in AI and customer journey complexity #SMBCON25 #Alsma25
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
2 months
Dan Wong, Managing Director, Horizon3 Partners talking about AI reinventing industries with limited time to respond #SMBCON25 #ALSMA25.
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
2 months
Donnah Ciempka. President, AustCham Thailand where Australia is leading in AI. #Smbcon25 #Alsma25
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Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱
3 months
I’m sorry but who do these people think they are? You are PUBLIC SERVANTS not anything else. You answer to Canadians & we would like to know your answer Health Minister. This is infuriating.
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
4 months
There should be drone surveillance for any large event to spot snipers.
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
6 months
Imagine customers falling in love with your front desk… Even though it’s entirely AI. It’s already happening. Callers can no longer tell the difference between AI and human. Here's the best part… We’ve seen it across clinics, salons, and service-based businesses: ↳ The AI
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
7 months
What if your churn dropped below 1% without adding a single new client? This simple move makes it possible. We recently analyzed 200,000 small businesses using a range of digital solutions ↳ websites, SEO, listings, reputation, ads, and more. 10,000 of them had one critical
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
7 months
I recently spoke to a group at Siinda in Germany about AI. A common theme is that pitching tech to local businesses feels like pushing uphill Unless you start here instead… For many local business owners, the idea of handing over customer interactions to a robot feels risky.
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
7 months
Local SMBs aren’t rejecting AI. They're waiting for one specific thing to take action. Most small businesses aren’t “doing AI” → They’re dabbling. 🔻Sure, they’ve heard of ChatGPT. Some have even asked it to write an email or curate a social media post. ↳But that’s a far cry
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
7 months
It’s easy to get trapped by incrementalism—after all, inertia is the ultimate thief of innovation. To break free, challenge your backlog with these two questions: Will this work empower an AI "employee" to perform tasks on behalf of our users? or Will it merely help the user
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
7 months
When customers get answers instantly, they stop shopping and start booking. What happens when your clients use an AI Receptionist? ✅ They respond instantly — so leads stop going cold ✅ They book more appointments — even after hours ✅ They convert faster — because customers
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Brendan King Co-founder Vendasta
7 months
This is the most excited I’ve been since 2015. I feel like a five-year-old clutching the Sears or Eaton’s Christmas catalog, circling everything in sight a month before the big day. Not everyone may relate to that specific nostalgia, but here’s the vibe: pure wonder,
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